In this video from ISC 2018, Joe Yaworski from Intel describes how the newly announced Intel® Omni-Path fabric, Intel® OPA200 interconnect will speed up HPC and AI applications. “Intel shared at ISC its next-generation Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA200), coming in 2019, which will provide data rate speeds up to 200 Gb/s, doubling the performance of the previous generation. This next-generation fabric will be interoperable and compatible with the current generation of Intel® OPA. Intel® OPA200’s high-performance capabilities and low-latency at scale will provide system architects the ability to scale to tens of thousands of nodes while benefiting from improved total cost of ownership.”
Agenda Posted for ExaComm 2018 Workshop in Frankfurt
June 13, 2018 by
The ExaComm 2018 workshop has posted their Speaker Agenda. Held in conjunction with ISC 2018, the Fourth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale takes place June 28 in Frankfurt. ” The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures. The objectives of this workshop will be to share the experiences of the members of this community and to learn the opportunities and challenges in the design trends for exascale communication architectures.”
BioScience gets a Boost Through Order-of-Magnitude Computing Gains
May 16, 2018 by
Intel is working with leaders in the field to eliminate today’s data processing bottlenecks. In this guest post from Intel, the company explores how BioScience is getting a leg up from order-of-magnitude computing progress. “Intel’s framework is designed to make HPC simpler, more affordable, and more powerful.”
ClusterVision to build Scandinavia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
May 8, 2018 by
Today Sweden’s National Supercomputing Centre (NSC) at Linköping University announced it has awarded ClusterVision a contract to build its new flagship cluster, Tetralith. Available to all researchers in Sweden, the 4 Petaflop machine will be Scandinavia’s most powerful yet with 60,544 cores based on Intel Xeon.
Intel HPC Technology: Fueling Discovery and Insight with a Common Foundation
April 23, 2018 by
To remain competitive, companies, academic institutions, and government agencies must tap the data available to them to empower scientific breakthroughs and drive greater business agility. This guest post explores how Intel’s scalable and efficient HPC technology portfolio accelerates today’s diverse workloads.
Russian RSC Group deploys ‘hot water’ cooled supercomputer at JINR
April 18, 2018 by
Today the RSC Group from Russia announced the deployment of the world first 100% ‘hot water’ liquid cooled supercomputer at Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna. “It’s great to note that we launch the new heterogeneous supercomputer named after professor Govorun at JINR’s Information Technology Laboratory in the year of 60th anniversary of commissioning of the first Ural-1 supercomputer at our institute in 1958. Our scientists and research groups now have a powerful and modern tool that will greatly accelerate theoretical and experimental research of nuclear physics and condensed matter physics,” – said Vladimir Vasilyevich Korenkov, Director of the Information Technology Laboratory of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
Intel’s Bill Magro Presents: Software Foundation for High-Performance Fabrics in the Cloud
April 11, 2018 by
Bill Magro from Intel gave this talk at the 2018 OpenFabrics Workshop. “Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Data Analytics workloads in the cloud are being fed by a deluge of data emanating from the Internet-connected population or people and things. This talk highlights the broadening role of OpenFabrics, in general, and the Open Fabrics Interface, in particular, to rise to the challenge of meeting the emerging requirements and become the software foundation for high-performance cloud fabrics.”
TUK in Germany installs NEC LX Supercomputer with Intel Omni-Path
March 7, 2018 by
NEC Deutschland GmbH has delivered an LX series supercomputer to Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (TUK), one of Germany’s leading Universities of Technology. “The new HPC cluster consists of 324 compute nodes totaling nearly 7,800 cores of the latest-generation Intel Skylake CPUs, and comprises a highly optimized Intel Omni-Path Interconnect architecture for low-latency, high-bandwidth communication. Additional GPGPU compute nodes equipped with the latest NVIDIA VOLTA 100 GPUs contribute to a total peak performance of the HPC cluster at approximately 700 Teraflops.”
Building Containers for Intel Omni-Path Fabrics using Docker and Singularity
March 4, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Intel® OPA technology is designed to leverage the existing Linux* RDMA kernel and networking stack interfaces. As such, many HPC applications designed to run on RDMA networks can run unmodified on compute nodes with Intel® OPA network technology installed, benefitting from improved network performance. When these HPC applications are run in containers, using techniques described in this application note, these same Linux* RDMA kernel device and networking stack interfaces can be selectively exposed to the containerized applications, enabling them to take advantage of the improved network performance of the Intel® OPA technology.
Intel’s Advanced Webinar Series for Understanding HPC Fabrics and Intel Omni-Path Architecture
February 26, 2018 by
To help prospective customers understand Intel OPA capabilities and inform new customers of how to take advantage of all that Intel OPA has to offer, Intel began presenting a series of webinars on the fabric nearly three years ago. This guest post explores Intel’s advanced webinar series that focuses on understanding HPC fabrics and Intel Omni-Path Architecture.
